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Lili Boulanger (21 August 1893 - 15 March 1918) was a French composer.
Lili came from a musical family; her father was a professor at the Paris Conservatory of Music, and her sister Nadia was a composer and teacher.
Lili was a student of Gabriel Fauré. At the age of 19 she won the Prix de Rome for her Faust et Hélène, becoming the first woman to win the prize.
Her works include
- Faust et Hélène
- D'un matin de printemps
- D'un soir triste
- Psaume 24
- Psaume 130
Her life and work were overshadowed by the chronic illness (believed to have been Crohn's Disease) that cut short her life at age 24.
The definitive biography is The Life and Works of Lili Boulanger by the American musicologist Léonie Rosenstiel.
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